The Lost Girls

When a Lakeland dale is flooded to form a reservoir there are no protests...only relief.

The rising water should cover the remains of little Joannie Gardner. And local people might finally be able to forget both the child and the man who left the dale shortly after her disappearance. But forty-five years on memories come surging back as the water recedes during a prolonged drought - and another lost girl stumbles into the dale.

Perry is a street kid on the run with just one friend - a fat collie with a liking for bones. A careless drifter, Perry sees herself as a survivor, but in the market town of Kelleth, where the displaced villagers have ended up, there is a killer on the loose. But, if Perry is the perceived victim, it is travel writer and amateur sleuth Melinda Pink who is the ultimate threat…

When the dog's ghastly find at the drowned village resurrects the events and rumours surrounding Joanie's disappearance many years earlier, it is Miss Pink who makes the connection to reveal more horrors than had ever been suspected…

Praise for Gwen Moffat:

‘One of the crime shelf's defter hands' - Guardian

‘Gwen Moffat creates vivid characters and not only manages a fast-moving, well-patterned plot, but also shows an aptitude for brilliant atmospheric set pieces' - Daily Mail

Gwen Moffat's main interests are wilderness areas and the genesis of murder, and all her books have featured one or the other. Moffat has written six travel books and twenty-six novels, including ‘Dying for Love', ‘Gone Feral', and ‘Private Sins'.